To:A. V. LUNACHARSKY

Copies to Comrades Litkens, Solovyov, Krestinsky

Written:Written on November 29, 1920Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeLunacharsky:

ComradeLitkens and I had a detailed talk yesterday.
I find his and Comrade Solovyov’s drafts
artificial.[2]Naturally, the C.C. will decide. My own preliminary
considerations are as follows:

1)Setup the office of Assistant People’s Commissar to
handleallthe administrative side.

2)Turnthe “organisational sector” into an
“organisational centre” (with a member of the collegium in charge).
This centre is to handle the administrative, organisational,
supply and other sides ofallthe sectors.

3)EliminateGlavprofobr[1],

merging it with thesecondary schools, provided: (α) general knowledge and political
subjects are extended in the secondary schools and (β) the
switch from trade and technical to polytechnical education
is, as far as possible, ensured.

4)Revivethe “G.U.S.” (State Academic Council) and
regulate it as an organ for discussion of all scientific and
pedagogical matters.

[[BOX:]]Composition=all members of the collegium + the
bestspecialists, even if bourgeois.

5)Setup the following sectors; (1) pre-school; (2) primary
school; (3) secondary school (=Glavprofobr); (4)
extramural (==Chief Committee for Political Education);
(5) higher school; (6) art.

6)Leavethe art sector as a single one, appointing
“political commissars”from among the Communiststo all
central and governing bodies in the sector.

29.XI.Lenin

[1]TheCentral Administration for Vocational Training under the
People’s Commissariat for Education.—Ed.

[2]Areference to the draft statute of the People’s Commissariat                  

or Education written by V. I. Solovyov and the draft, theses                   

m reorganising it prepared by Y. A. Litkens. Both drafts were                 

sent by the authors to Lenin. On the reorganisation of the People’s            

Commissariat for Education see also present edition, Vol. 32,                  

pp. 120–22, 123–32; Vol. 42, pp. 237–38; andCollected Works, Fifth 

(Russian) Edition, Vol. 42, p. 376.